Froggattisca testacea

Froggattisca testacea is a species of cave-dwelling[1] antlion (or Myrmeleontidae), endemic to the Northern Territory.

[2] The species was first described as Adeloplectron testaceum in 1923 by Peter Esben-Petersen,[2][3] but was transferred to the genus, Froggattisca by Lionel Alvin Stange in 1976.

[4] Miller and Stange describe this species (and all Froggattisca species) as not being a true cave-dwelling antlion, because not all life stages are confined to caves.

[1] The larvae of this species live in "recessed, slightly rain-protected abandoned termite galleries of termite mounds".

[1] This Antlion (Myrmeleontidae)- related article is a stub.